Need Help with NetworkManager/WPA_Supplicant

[eusanpe]

Hello All,

 

I had to do a full install of my laptop. It had been running fine since the Jackass days on Gentoo. Dang Raid0 and old backups.

Anyway I redid my laptop and I am having trouble with Networkmanager. Here is what is in NeworkManager.conf

[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile

[ifupdown]
managed=false

wpa_supplicant.conf

network={
ssid="clinistar1-5Ghz"
psk="xxxxxxxxxxxx"
}

If I run 'rc-status', networkmanager is crashed and wpa_supplicant is up. I have network connectivity but only on the one defined in wpa_supplicant.

I do not get any selections nor does KDE Neworkmanagement fire anymore. I need this because I have multilple selections in the house and VPN.

 

Can anyone help?

 

Thanks,

Tony

[eusanpe]

I reoved the networkmanage.conf and it seems to be working now. The 'addwifi' didn't seem t work. Turns out it doesn't like

'!!' exclamation points in the password setting.

 

Thanks for your help

 

Tony

 

BTW...I just recompiled networkmanager to get rid of the error above.

[sputnik]

You don't have wpa_supplicant in rc do you?  Only NetworkManager should be there, no dhcpcd either.  My best guess.

[drobbins]

You shouldn't run wpa_supplicant -- only add NetworkManager to your runlevel, and use the "addwifi" command to add your connection. I typically don't have a NetworkManager.conf at all. "addwifi" will create an entry in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections.

[eusanpe]

I trie to do what ya said and then I got another error for 'Addwifi'. It used to be so easy, lol!

sudo addwifi -S wpa -K 'Wnhj853ycat' clinistar1-5Ghz
Error: nmcli (0.9.10.0) and NetworkManager (unknown) versions don't match. Force execution using --nocheck, but the results are unpredictable.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/addwifi", line 164, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/addwifi", line 161, in main
    block_until_created(args.ssid, args.retries, args.interval)
  File "/usr/sbin/addwifi", line 81, in block_until_created
    nmcli_con_list = check_output(['nmcli', 'con', 'show'], universal_newlines=True)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/subprocess.py", line 589, in check_output
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args, output=output)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['nmcli', 'con', 'show']' returned non-zero exit status 9
Exit 1

Thanks,

Tony

[Oleg Vinichenko]

need more details on adwifi problem. Please, clean off all your configs and follow http://www.funtoo.org/Funtoo_Linux_Installation#Wi-Fi

[fabiobeneditto]

Hi!

 

addwifi shows same error to me.

 

I'll connect my wifi using nmcli commands from Arch documentation. Here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NetworkManager#nmcli

 

Maybe error is with my wifi router, that uses wpa2-personal authentication.

[Oleg Vinichenko]

same error: is this python traceback?

[fabiobeneditto]

Hi!

 

same error: is this python traceback?

 

After this steps above, I don't see any errors.

[Oleg Vinichenko]

what are errors then? :) does addwifi work? we would need to sort this.